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...pioneer methods to mitigate rising waters, but also provide a vital gauge of how nature itself can adapt to the ravages of global warming. Far more populous low-lying countries, from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, will watch with interest. "Very small places can offer very big answers," says Ahmed Moosa, the editor of the online Dhivehi Observer, who has also been appointed the nation's climate envoy...
...Opposition to Gayoom's rule reached a peak in late 2003, when news leaked of government violence against political prisoners led to mass protests on the streets of the Maldives' capital, Male. "We had been telling the population that they deserved better," says Ahmed Moosa, a prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein...
...incremental changes allowed in the past few years would have come about without the efforts of activists who had long been frozen out of the political mainstream. "A free press, an independent judiciary, an auditor general - it took Gayoom nearly three decades to even consider these things," says Moosa, the self-exiled activist who is also editor of the online Dhivehi Observer...
...rushed when he was shot, exemplifies how things are moving forward. In early April, during the final days of heavy combat, the facility was almost emptied by looters. "They took beds, air-conditioners, linen, food, ultrasound machines, computers--anything they could carry out," says hospital director Mahdi Jasim Moosa. Since then, the hospital has been refurnished. Some equipment was returned by looters under pressure from neighbors and imams. New fittings have been bought with funds raised in a local mosque and donations from welfare organizations like the Red Cross and CARE. The number of shooting and stabbing victims admitted...
...development would be allowed per island, and each had to meet a stringent set of environmental standards, such as importing all building materials and providing all water, power and waste disposal. The result was eco-tourism before the term existed. "Eco-tourism is one of those buzzwords," says Moosa Zameer Hassan, a government environmental analyst. "It's really sustainable tourism. But it's all the same in the Maldives: nature-based...